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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Eric Hoffer

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Deep Equality Expose Meaning Ourselves Passion Perspective
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Angel Hate Human Man Nature Savior
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Build Empty Evil Greatness Hard Hide Ourselves Philosophy Pretend Ugly
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Ability Capacity Ourselves Respect Tolerance

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

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